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Don Wharton

@donwharton.bsky.social
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Atheist since age of 13. Currently serving on the Board of the Washington Area Secular Humanists. I am also the Editor of their newsletter, WASHline. I also create local community with my DC Atheists Meetup. We need to organize to preserve what we can.

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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Trump is obviously going through a stunningly rapid cognitive decline from a very low starting connection with reality. JD Vance actually had some decent ability to think back in his Hillbilly Elegy period.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Sorry, I did not see this until now. I hope you got on my email list earlier. Yes, I primarily use the meetup.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I wrote the cover article in the Feb/Mar issue of Free Inquiry. It is on Jesus mythicism. I make the point that given the known complexity of historical information there is no reliable facts that can be known about a hypothetical historical Jesus: secularhumanism.org/2026/01/a-ce...
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A CERN-Level Proof of Mythicism | Free Inquiry
This article will serve as a response to Bill Cooke’s Free Inquiry article “Five Challenges to Christ Myth Theorists” (August/September 2024). I object to t ...
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOyy...
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Trump Blanks on Habeas Corpus; Pritzker Hits Back After Trump's Jail Threat: A Closer Look
YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
There is a web site that is tracking the degree to which the hideous goal seeking of Project 2025 is working. It is a profoundly appalling project. But it is better to know what is happening than to be ignorant. www.project2025.observer?utm_source=s...
project2025.observer
Project 2025 Tracker
Track the progress on Project 2025
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Trump is a wannabe autocrat in love with other autocrats. The only way to guarantee a Ukrainian peace would be for America (with our European allies) fully making a military guarantee of that peace. Putin would just consume the Ukraine at a future date without that guarantee.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
What we need to do is talk with each other to the point where we have a shared understanding of the common good and the pathways to implement that common good.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is THE fear that all of us should be responding to. I agree that the enemy of this authoritarian wannabe regime is the end of democracy.They want to impose their theocratic extremism and radically increase the ability of the obscenely rich to increase their wealth.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
That is so pathetic.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
That was such a pathetic display. Rubio is the only one with some classical Republican realism in his world view. He is realizing that no one can even share a view of reality in this unhinged administration. What Trump says is real even if it is batshit nonsense.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The goal of this fascist administration is let corporate entities fed with much less constraints at the trough of the common good. That mean that they want to maximize the cash flow from people who have less time to research how those corporate entities are setting up their scams.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Yeah, and when the so called canonical Bible was created they selected 4 of the about 40 existing gospels for inclusion.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
We need to start charging treason. Support for Russia and the policies of tyranny is about as treasonous as you can get.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Trump was offering a total ripoff. It reminds me of colonialism. Trump was actually unhappy that he was not getting more from his very unfair proposal.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Astonishingly, January was 1.75 degrees Centigrade above the pre-industrial level. This is after the heating effect of the prior El Nino is fully out of the global system. The 12 month moving average is now 1.61 degrees C above.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Outrageous! They seriously are demanding that people cannot support the undocumented.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
True. The courts have no police and no army. And Trump has no intrinsic respect for any societal norms.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
That is insane.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Enjoy the beauty that you find in your life wherever you can.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
People knew he was making this threat. Obviously it should be considered a dramatic negative. How the stock market players have not processed the obvious implications is beyond me.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
So funny
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Last year was over 1.5 degrees Centigrade above the pre-industrial level for the first time.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It is good to make the transition from Facebook as that medium is now certain to descend into a Trump friendly pile of nonsense.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
His avarice knows no bounds.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
This sanctification of religion in the public domain will then be leveraged to deliver actual harm to the many minorities targeted by the Christian nationalists.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I like your optimism. However, in Germany the judiciary was cowed very early. Hitler could demand any judge to certify any desired show trial. I do not see that we will be able to legally resist if he brings his pressure to sitting judges and removes the courts as a mechanism of restraint.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Prayers are not going to help. Action to discern and fight for the common good is what is needed. Positivity in planning for that action can be most helpful.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
We need to be more like that.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This is just plain outrageous. They are unwilling to have their workers be qualified for unemployment benefits? Or are those workers somehow going to get benefits that other workers pay for?
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Are you kidding me? There is no way any Democrat should vote for Hegseth. Irrespective of the sexual assaults and lack of a moral framework, he just has no expertise to manage a 3 million worker organization. He would be there only to use the military as Trump wishes without limits.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Yeah, it is logically possible to communicate in a respectful way that invokes the intrinsic ability to examine and evaluate evidence which in principal cannot be destroyed by propaganda. However, so many have been so inundated by vicious nonsense that the effort is nearly impossible.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Indeed they are.
A tweet from "Shauna" with the handle "@goldengateblond" stating: "Trump's cabinet announcements are like an advent calendar counting down to the apocalypse."
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Insane incompetence.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Very painfully true.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I get what you are saying. But I see myself as one of an in-group that understands that we are voting in an administration that will be radically more theocratic that I/we like. Yes, that dehumanizes that people who want this. How do we feel the other side to be human and still be real?
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Yeah, the coming theocracy will suck. It does not make me feel better to share it. But it does open a door for communicating with others who harbor that thought.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
How dishonest can Elon be? This is astonishing.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
His Christian nationalism would result in all trans people now in the military being expelled and all women in combat roles at least being reassigned. He is also a supremely incompetent manager for vast organization that needs high competence.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The fear and terror from coming fascism is here.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I semi-disagree on this. You are, of course, right that the literary world could have done more. The major media problem is that the hard right has just invested radically more into their hate and lie machines, talk radio, Fox, X, etc.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Hell yes! She is confused about some policy issues but she has courage and integrity.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I have to write this one up in our next WASH newsletter.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Yeah, totally inappropriate concern. Hunter Biden paid all the taxes owed, has dealt with his addiction and is no threat with a gun. Punishment against him achieves nothing.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Hey, Trump may wind up killing more than either of those disasters. Yes, his is a clown. However, he is a clown without limits given the Supreme Court. He has promised both a radical misuse of the military and weaponizing the Justice Department.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I think ABC news suggested 6 GOP members are thinking about not voting for him.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Nailed it.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We are living in a mad universe.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Trump has already made so many unhinged promises to go outside of all prior legal norms. The only question is which ones will he actually act on.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Blue Sky looks like it is going to work. As christian nationalism rears its ugly head we will need to use all reasonable forums to organize and fight back. It is good to meet so many wonderful people here.
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Don Wharton @donwharton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I have not seen a post yet on Kash Patel, Trump projected Director of the FBI. He said “Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections – we’re going to come after you,” This is just insane authoritarianism.
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